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The Outdoor Retailer Show is coming to Colorado: Here's what you can expect

Posted: 2:39 AM, Jan 25, 2018

Updated:2018-01-25 09:39:36Z

By:
Oscar Contreras

DENVER – After calling Utah home for twenty years, the nation’s largest outdoor recreation trade show is beginning a new chapter in Colorado.

The Outdoor Retailer show – which announced back in July of last year
it was moving to Colorado from Utah due to political differences – will be in town at the Colorado Convention Center from Thursday, Jan. 25 through Sunday, Jan. 28.

Gov. John Hickenlooper will officially open the show with an 8:45 a.m. press conference with several Outdoor Retailer show officials.

The event will showcase three floors of the latest in hard goods (skies, snowboards, etc.) apparel, and accessories, including rechargeable hand warmers, heated skis/snowboard boot bags, googles with lens locks, outerwear made from ocean plastic, feather lightweight snowboarding bindings in rainbow colors, personal lead water filtration, heated socks and gloves that provide heat for 12 hours, among others.

If you were planning to attend, you better make other plans – the show is not open to the public, as it is geared toward the $887 billion outdoor and winter sports industries to check out the latest in outdoor gear and wear.

But not all hope is lost.

The public is invited to attend a Fashion Show at Red Rocks on Friday, Jan. 26 starting at 7 p.m. and the Night of Stoke, a new event with films and speakers “living the dream of the ultimate winter sports lifestyles.” This will take place at the Bellco Theater starting at 6:30 p.m.

More than 1,000 brands will be showing their next generation technology at the event, which takes lasts from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The organization's biannual events attracted an estimated $45 million in annual direct spending to Utah, according to the Associated Press.

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